Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) Author Opitz, Weston Florida State Collection of Arthropods Division of Plant Industry, Entomology Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 1911 SW 34 th Street Gainesville, Florida 32614 - 7100 text Insecta Mundi 2020 2020-09-25 2020 793 1 70 journal article 7872 10.5281/zenodo.4564947 06c4d529-b187-453f-8534-3739700e0328 1942-1354 4564947 0B89F97A-AAA5-4CE2-9DA2-CC47EA03346D Axina sexmaculata Spinola, 1844 Figures 72 , 123 . Axina sexmaculata Spinola, 1844: 124 . Holotype . Male. Type locality: Brazil (MRSN). Corporaal 1950: 98 . Ekis 1975: 19 . Diagnosis. The cranium is black in specimens of A . sexmaculata . It is red-castaneous in superficially similar specimens of A . fortipes . Redescription. Size . Length 10.0 mm; width 2.3 mm . Form . As in Fig. 123 . Color . Cranium black; antenna testaceous; thorax, legs, and abdomen light castaneous; elytra bicolorous, mostly light castaneous, with three black maculae, one subquadrate on humeral angle, one transverse near elytron middle, and one transverse preapically. Head . Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/10. Thorax . Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 100/140; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend to elytral apical ½, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 440/80. Abdomen . Aedeagus, phallobasic lobes very short, slightly diverged; phallic plates minutely serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated. Variation. Size . Length 8.0– 12.2 mm ; width 2.0–3.0 mm. Some specimens have the sides of the pronotum black. Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during December at 1,250 m , and in Brazil during November. Distribution (for map see Fig. 72 ). In addition to the holotype , I examined 11 specimens from: Bolivia : Departamento de Santa Cruz , 20 km N Camiri Rd to Eyti, 8-9-XII-2015 , 1,250 m , Wappes, Kuckartz & Skillman. Brazil : Estado do Bahia , Villa Victoria,?-?-1890, C. H. Pujol; Cachimbo,?-?-1890, C. H. Pujol; Encruzilhada,?- XI-1975 , Moacir Alvarenga; San Antonio da Barra,?-?-1890, Ch. Pujol; Estado do Minas Gerais , Pedra Azul,?- XI-1971 , F. M. Oliveira; Estado do Espírito Santo ,?-?-1909, collector not legible; Estado do Paraiba , Santa Rita, collection day not noted, F, Salhsberg. Argentina : Provincia Entre Rios , Paraná, Tiju,?-?-1911, E. R. Wagner. Specimens are deposited in: MNHN, SDEI, WFBM, and WOPC. Notes. The holotype was examined, but the description is based on a homotype specimen.